David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 - June 11, 2003) was an American
newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored, with Chet Huntley, NBC's
top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report,
and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC
Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley
was host of This Week with David Brinkley and a top commentator
on election-night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career,
Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards,
and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Brinkley is also remembered for an exchange that occurred several days
before his previously announced retirement. It happened at the end of
ABC News' live coverage of the 1996 presidential election, in which Bill
Clinton defeated Bob Dole to win a second term.

Brinkley: "I wish to say that we all look forward with great pleasure to
four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches full of wit, poetry, music,
love and affection. More goddamn nonsense."